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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Joseph Ochoa
Louis Fernandez breaks down how it all shook out. The Carolina Hurricanes advanced to the Eastern Conference final. They beat the Washington Capitals in Game 53 to 1. They do it with Andrei Srechnikov heroics. Svechnikov scored his 8th goal of the postseason. This one came with 159 left in the game, breaking a 1-1 tie. Seth Jarvis added. An empty netter in the final minute for that 3 to 1 final score. So the Canes beat the Caps in the best of 7 series in 5 games. They won 4 of the 5 games.
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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Brian Murphy |Louis Fernandez Jr.
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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Mark Bergin
The Dallas Mavericks won the 2025 NBA Draft Lottery on Monday night, getting the rights to the No. 1 overall pick and the opportunity to draft Duke freshman phenom Cooper Flagg. Flagg, listed at 6-foot-9, was the Associated Press Player of the Year and the Naismith Award Player of the Year. In the 2024-25 season, Flagg led Duke in scoring (19.2 points per game), rebounds (7.5 per game), assists (4.2 per game), stelas (1.4 per game) and blocks (1.4 per game).
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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Mark Bergin |Louis Fernandez Jr.
The NBA Draft Lottery is set for next week in Chicago. NBA teams are vying to get the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft and the rights to select Duke phenom Cooper Flagg. The draft lottery is set for 7 p.m. ET Monday, and it airs on ESPN. The NBA Draft is scheduled for June 25-26 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
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1 month ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Mark Bergin |Louis Fernandez Jr.
WRAL's Mark Bergin and Louis Fernandez discussed the best NBA team fits for Duke phenom Cooper Flagg. The discussion comes before Monday night's NBA Draft Lottery, which determines which team gets the No. 1 pick and the rights to draft Flagg. It's Another edition of WRAL Triangle at 2. I'm Mark Bergen. He is Louis Fernandez.
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2 months ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Mark Bergin
Duke guard Sion James spoke about the Blue Devils' 70-67 loss to Houston in the Final Four. As far as. Not exactly sure, um. Uh, of course, they tightened up on defense. I felt like we still got OK looks. I wouldn't, I'd have to watch to be able to tell you exactly. It's kind of hard reaction. I think it was some of the most fun I've ever had playing basketball, and it breaks my heart because um I wanted to finish the deal.
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2 months ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Mark Bergin
Duke freshman Cooper Flagg will leave this basketball season with the biggest individual award in the country. Flagg was announced as the men's winner of the John R. Wooden Award on Saturday ahead of Duke's Final Four game against the Houston Cougars. Flagg is the fourth freshman to win the award on the men's side. The first since Duke freshman Zion Williamson in the 2018-19 season. The other two players to win the award as freshman are Anthony Davis and Kevin Durant.
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2 months ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Mark Bergin
Duke freshmen Khaman Maluach and Kon Knueppel spoke with reporters on Friday ahead of the Blue Devils' Final Four game against the Houston Cougars. Yeah, um, I, I didn't know him really at all. He texted me like the week before I was gonna get on campus, but I didn't, you know, you met him obviously on the visit and stuff, but I didn't really keep in contact or anything.
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2 months ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Mark Bergin
Kelly Flagg and her husband, Ralph, spoke Friday about their excitement for Duke's game on Saturday against Houston. and you know you're gonna be in that limelight and spotlight a lot so in order we knew that he was gonna need those personal you know traits in order to to get that far with that, you know, being in the on the news all the time or having somebody stick it, you know, it's just, it's just part of the deal when you go that's why you go to Duke.
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2 months ago | 
wralsportsfan.com | Louis Fernandez Jr. |Mark Bergin
Tags: Final Four, Cooper Flagg, Duke sports, Duke basketball, March Madness, NCAA Tournament, college basketball
Kelly Flagg and her husband, Ralph, spoke Friday about their excitement for Duke's Final Four game on Saturday against Houston.
